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  1. Peter Schickele ( / ˈʃɪkəli /; [1] July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix. [2]

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    Bio. Composer, satirist, performer, recording artist, radio host—Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. In 2015, the New Yorkerhailed Schickele as “a latter-day Haydn…the one American composer whose name makes everyone smile.”. Schickele’s works, now well in excess of ...

  3. Jan 17, 2024 · Peter Schaaf. Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly ...

  4. Peter Schickele is acknowledged as the foremost classical music satirist of all time. He is the sole discoverer of work by the mythical Baroque composer P.D.Q Bach (1807-1742), the “pimple on the face of music” who has earned legions of fans across generations and continents.

  5. Jan 26, 2024 · BIANCULLI: But Peter Schickele was best known for concocting, presenting and performing the works of P.D.Q. Bach, whom Schickele claimed was the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20 ...

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  6. Jan 18, 2024 · Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88.His daughter confirmed the death ...

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  8. Jan 18, 2024 · Schickele died on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at his home in Bearsville, New York. He was 88. Billed as "Professor Peter Schickele, performer and apologist," he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a special concert on September 16, 1977. With the assistance of guest conductor Leonard Slatkin, Schickele introduced the Orchestra ...

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